On September the 18th 2003, Moldova's Flux Daily News carried a front-page report that was headline news entitled "Voronin's Friend's Hand's are Soaked with Blood." Here is an excerpt from this article:
On September the 17th, the Centre for Improvement of Health and Morality in St. Petersburg sent a letter to President Vladimir Voronin to draw his attention to something: The man who is currently paying an official visit to the Republic of Moldova has been sued in several countries on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and cruel torture, and this man is a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee. He is also the head of the so-called "610 Office," which was specially established to carry out the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Who is Luo Gan?
In April 1998, Luo was appointed Secretary of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, which gave him authority over the national security department.
According to a report released by the UN Human Rights Commission in 2001, Luo Gan supports the use of cruel torture and abuse against the practitioners of Falun Gong, who are being imprisoned in forced labor camps. In October 2001, the prison guards at Liaoning Province's Shenyang City Masanjia Prison stripped 18 female Falun Gong practitioners of their clothes and threw them into male criminals' cells. It is reported that Luo Gan, a high-ranking Communist Party official, was aware of the incident."
According to reliable sources, Luo Gan oversees prisons [in China] and is responsible for carrying out Jiang Zemin's three-prong directives for handling Falun Gong:
- Physically destroy Falun Gong practitioners: through systematic, state-sanctioned forced-labor, cruel torture, brainwashing and incarceration in mental hospitals, where nerve-damaging drugs are injected into Falun Gong practitioners.
- Destroy Falun Gong practitioners' reputations: through a series of fabricated lies and propaganda to demonize Falun Gong.
- Financially destroy Falun Gong practitioners: in China, the government has very strict control that allows the Jiang regime to have the authority to confiscate Falun Gong practitioners' basic necessities for living, including salaries/pensions, housing, education, etc.
Since Luo Gan has a very close relationship with Jiang, he was promoted to a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. He thus became one of the nine national committee members who have the power to control the government. According to a classified document circulated within the Chinese Communist Party on June the 7th 1999, Jiang, in a speech made at a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee, ordered the establishment of a special organization to destroy Falun Gong, which was dubbed the "610 Office." Generally speaking, this organization is a well-organized and independent system.
In recent years, people in several countries have filed lawsuits against the culprits who are responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong.
Since October 2002 a series of legal actions have been taken. In December 2002, a criminal lawsuit was filed in France, charging the former Vice-Prime Minister of China, Mr. Lanqing Li.
In July 2003, the French Criminal Court started to investigate this case.
In the US, there have been five similar cases accepted, and two of them have been adjudicated in favor of Falun Gong.
In a report dated June 2003, a judge accused Liu Qi, the General Secretary of the Beijing branch of the Chinese Communist Party, of using torture against the Falun Gong practitioners.
In August 2003, a criminal lawsuit was filed in Belgium charging Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan and a third high-ranking Chinese official with crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity.
In December 2001 the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York ruled against Zhao Zhifei, chief of police and second-in command of the "6-10 Office" in Hubei Province.
In March 2003, a Switzerland-based international non-governmental organization, "Track Impunity Always," announced plans to sue Jiang Zemin for his role in persecuting Falun Gong.
Lawsuits have also been filed in Indonesia and Hong Kong, while citizens of Canada, the United States, Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong and China have submitted a case against Jiang Zemin to two United Nations bodies as well as the International Criminal Court. On September the 8th, 2003, the lawsuit filed in Iceland was the 12th international case in the last two years.
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